Locksmith in Mount Pleasant, WI

Locksmith in Mount Pleasant, from Racine's edge to I-94

A locksmith in Mount Pleasant works in a village that lies along the west side of Racine and runs out to I-94 and beyond. Closer to Racine are older neighborhoods and shopping strips; farther west are new subdivisions, new business parks, and very large construction projects. We come to all of them as a mobile locksmith. A rekey or a car key takes 15 to 60 minutes, and a lockout usually takes a few minutes once we arrive. Mount Pleasant is about 23 miles south of downtown Milwaukee.

A township that became a village in 2003

Settlers arrived here in 1835, and Mount Pleasant was organized as a township in 1842. For most of its history it was a rural town at the edge of Racine. In 1972 it adopted its own zoning, and on September 16, 2003, after a referendum, it incorporated as a village. In 2020 it had 27,732 residents spread over about 34 square miles. The village runs its own sewer and storm water utilities but gets its drinking water from the city of Racine, its fire and ambulance service from the South Shore Fire Department, and its public schools from the Racine Unified School District.

Foxconn, Microsoft, and a lot of new buildings

In 2017, Foxconn announced a flat-panel campus estimated at 10 billion dollars in Mount Pleasant, and the village and Racine County built roads, utilities, and infrastructure for it. The plant that followed was far smaller than first promised. In 2023, Microsoft agreed to buy about 315 acres in the same tax district for a data center campus worth about one billion dollars, broke ground that September, and later announced plans for about 1,030 more acres.

Construction in Mount Pleasant means new doors, and new doors mean a lot of keys. During construction, keys pass through many hands: general contractors, electricians, plumbers, cleaning crews. When a building is handed over, the owner has no way to know who kept a copy. A rekey of the finished building, from $79 for the first lock and $25 for each additional lock, closes that gap (commercial rekey). For a building with many doors and many users, we set up a master key system, where each key in the system starts at $45 (master key systems).

Older shops, offices, and warehouses in the village need the everyday work as well. We open a locked business from $89, repair a sticking panic bar from $129 (panic bars), fix a door closer that slams or does not latch from $99, and add keypad access to a staff door from $149. The exact price is confirmed on site before we start.

New homes and the builder's keys

New houses in Mount Pleasant have their own key problem. Before you move in, keys to a new home may have been handed to the builder, the subcontractors, the real estate agents, and the inspectors. Some builders use construction cores, but many do not. A rekey changes the inside of each lock so every old key stops working, and the hardware stays on the door. We key the front door, the garage entry, and the patio door to one new key, from $59 for the first lock and $20 for each additional lock (rekeying).

For families who would rather use codes, we install a keypad or smart lock from $99 (smart locks). For older homes closer to Racine, we repair worn locks from $79 and install new deadbolts from $119.

Lockouts and car keys

A house lockout starts at $69 (house lockout), and a car lockout also starts at $69. On a job site, give us the gate or the building number and a phone number we can reach. For a work truck or a car with no key left, we cut and program a new key at the vehicle from $119, and a push-to-start smart key starts at $159 (lost car keys).

Driving to Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant borders the city of Racine on the east and Caledonia on the north. I-94 runs north from here to Oak Creek in Milwaukee County. We also cover Sturtevant, the small village next door. The prices are the same everywhere we work.